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Roy
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14 years ago

How to generate an ISO-8601 string?

To work with an external API, I need to generate the current time as an ISO-8601 string. Is there an easy way to do this? roDateTime can *parse* an ISO-8601, but I don't see any way to generate one.
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TheEndless
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14 years ago
Function DateToISO8601String(date As Object, includeZ = True As Boolean) As String
	iso8601 = PadLeft(date.GetYear().ToStr(), "0", 4)
	iso8601 = iso8601 + "-"
	iso8601 = iso8601 + PadLeft(date.GetMonth().ToStr(), "0", 2)
	iso8601 = iso8601 + "-"
	iso8601 = iso8601 + PadLeft(date.GetDayOfMonth().ToStr(), "0", 2)
	iso8601 = iso8601 + "T"
	iso8601 = iso8601 + PadLeft(date.GetHours().ToStr(), "0", 2)
	iso8601 = iso8601 + ":"
	iso8601 = iso8601 + PadLeft(date.GetMinutes().ToStr(), "0", 2)
	iso8601 = iso8601 + ":"
	iso8601 = iso8601 + PadLeft(date.GetSeconds().ToStr(), "0", 2)
	If includeZ Then
		iso8601 = iso8601 + "Z"
	End If
	Return iso8601
End Function

Function PadLeft(value As String, padChar As String, totalLength As Integer) As String
	While value.Len() < totalLength
		value = padChar + value
	End While
	Return value
End Function